Gluck presents her 11th collection of Poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.
Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry..
What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present.
Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless Poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken.
That place gives its name to Louise Glück\'s tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.
Gluck presents her 11th collection of Poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld
